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• Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas (LOC)

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  • 208 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)

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  • 409 comments
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  • 216,477 views
  • Date taken: 1942
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC)

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  • 24 comments
  • 355 favorites
  • 170,178 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)

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  • 18 comments
  • 183 favorites
  • 102,750 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas (LOC)

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  • 91 favorites
  • 56,192 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• De-waxing plant at Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa, Okla. (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 31 favorites
  • 44,369 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 74 favorites
  • 43,064 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Loading sulphur from vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 27 favorites
  • 34,278 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Freeport Sulphur Co., 60 foot high vat of sulphur, Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 14 favorites
  • 33,759 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Loading box cars with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 10 favorites
  • 33,209 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Melted sulphur from the wells pouring into relay station, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 10 favorites
  • 32,963 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Sulphur vat 60 feet high, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 35 favorites
  • 31,923 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Railroad cars loaded with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 12 favorites
  • 31,781 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 7 favorites
  • 29,784 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• 60 foot high sulphur vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)

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  • 3 comments
  • 18 favorites
  • 29,043 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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